Nochepepe

Nochepepe (died 1526) was an Aztec princess. In 1526, she was sacrificed to the mother goddess Tonantzin, leading to a clash between the Aztecs who sacrificed her and the Spanish soldiers who discovered her body.

Biography
Nochepepe was born in the Aztec Empire, and she came from a family of nobility. During the Spanish conquest of the New World, the Aztecs feared that their gods would be taken from them, but the Cult of Tonantzin was preserved by the scribe Topiltzin and other faithful animists. In 1526, Nochepepe was to be sacrificed by the cult, which believed that she would be fused with the goddess. She was stabbed in the chest and her heart cut out, and the Spanish captain Cristobal Quijano, the friar Diego de La Coruna, and their soldiers arrived to witness Nochepepe's body, declaring that the Aztecs truly were from another world, before going on to attack them.